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de vs de_AT vs de_CH de_DE
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:53 pm
by kriz
I'm building a site with English and German content. I've setup the database for en and de and the config_lang.php for en_US and de_DE. My default language is en_US.
In my page template I'm using {lang} to allow language switching.
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define('DEFAULT_LANG', 'en_US');
$force_mle_default = false;
$hls = array(
'en_US' => array(
'block'=>'en',
'flag'=>'<img src="images/lang/en_US.png" style="border:0" alt="English" />',
'text'=>'English',
),
'de_DE' => array(
'block'=>'de',
'parent' => 'de',
'flag'=>'<img src="images/lang/de_DE.png" style="border:0" alt="Deutsch" />',
'text'=>'Deutsch',
),
);
Everything is working fine as long as the browser sends either en_US or de_DE as HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE header. As soon as a browser sends de_AT, de_CH or simply de then the DEFAULT_LANG content (that is en_US) is shown.
Is there a possibility to map all the de languages to the de content (and all the en languages to the en content)?
I can add additionaly hls entries but this will duplicate the language choices in my {lang} list and I don't like this...
Kriz
Re: de vs de_AT vs de_CH de_DE
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:03 pm
by alby
kriz wrote:
Everything is working fine as long as the browser sends either en_US or de_DE as HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE header. As soon as a browser sends de_AT, de_CH or simply de then the DEFAULT_LANG content (that is en_US) is shown.
In addition to order (or quality) the important prerequisite is parent language and accuracy of the language.
If browser send HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE with:
de_AT, en, de => en_US
de_AT, de, en => de_DE
de_DE, en => de_DE
This is a very controversial point (view
from #44 to #50)
Alby
Re: de vs de_AT vs de_CH de_DE
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:00 pm
by Wiedmann
the important prerequisite is parent language and accuracy of the language.
I think I understand his problem.
Example:
config.lang.php
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<?php
define('DEFAULT_LANG', 'de');
$force_mle_default = false;
$hls = array(
'de' => array(
'block' => 'de',
'flag' => '<img src="images/lang/de_DE.png" style="border:0" alt="Deutsch" />',
'text' => 'Deutsch',
'parent' => 'de',
'locale_cms' => 'de_DE',
'locale' => (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3)) === 'WIN') ? 'deu_deu' : 'de_DE.UTF-8',
),
'en' => array(
'block' => 'en',
'flag' => '<img src="images/lang/en_US.png" style="border:0" alt="English" />',
'text' => 'English',
'parent' => 'en',
'locale_cms' => 'en_US',
'locale' => (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3)) === 'WIN') ? 'eng_us' : 'en_US.UTF-8',
),
);
?>
Now I request the page with a browser:
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE = en-gb
The result is a German website.
(normaly I use a PEAR package for this locale/browser things. And I'm quite shure, I have English with this browser header.)
Re: de vs de_AT vs de_CH de_DE
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:11 pm
by alby
kriz wrote:
Is there a possibility to map all the de languages to the de content (and all the en languages to the en content)?
Yes and there is also an inconsistency
Substitute in mle/function.mle.php:
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$language = trim($browser_lang[0]);
if (strlen($language) == 2)
{
$language = strtolower($language);
if(in_array($language, array_keys($t_hls['parent']))) return $t_hls['parent']["$language"];
}
else
{
$language = strtolower(substr($language, 0, 2)) .'_'. strtoupper(substr($language, 3, 2));
if(in_array($language, array_keys($t_hls['locale']))) return $t_hls['locale']["$language"];
}
with:
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$language = strtolower(trim($browser_lang[0]));
if(strlen($language) > 2) $language = substr($language, 0, 2);
if(in_array($language, array_keys($t_hls['parent']))) return $t_hls['parent']["$language"];
Alby